| Description |
viii, 242 pages ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Series |
In focus--Routledge film readers |
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In focus--Routledge film readers.
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Auteurs -- 1. Whose text is it anyway? : queer cultures, queer auteurs and queer authorship / Alexander Doty -- 2. Physique cinema, 1945-1969 : hard to imagine / Thomas Waugh -- 3. Transgressive cinema : lesbian independent film / Andrea Wiess -- 4. The new queer cinema / B. Ruby Rich -- Pt. 2. Forms -- 5. The monster and the homosexual / Harry Benshoff -- 6. Queer negotiations of the Hollywood musical / Brett Farmer -- 7. Queer noir / Richard Dyer -- 8. Pronoun trouble : the "queerness" of animation / Sean Griffin -- Pt. 3. Camp -- 9. Camp and the gay sensibility / Jack Babuscio -- 10. Reclaiming the discourse of camp / Moe Meyer -- Pt. 4. Reception -- 11. Judy Garland and gay men / Richard Dyer -- 12. Finding community in the early 1960s : underground cinema and sexual politics / Janet Staiger -- 13. "Out of the closet and into the universe" : queers and Star Trek / Henry Jenkins -- 14. Reviewing queer viewing / Caroline Evans and Lorraine Gamman |
| Summary |
"Queer Cinema, the Film Reader brings together key writings that use queer theory to explore cinematic sexualities, especially those historically designated as gay, lesbian, bisexual and/or transgendered. The collection examines the relationship between cinematic representations of sexuality and their social, historical and industrial contexts."--BOOK JACKET |
| Analysis |
Cinema (Film studies) |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Gay and lesbian studies.
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Homosexuality and motion pictures.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures -- History.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures -- United States.
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Homosexuality in motion pictures.
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| Author |
Benshoff, Harry M., 1963-
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Griffin, Sean.
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| LC no. |
2003024424 |
| ISBN |
0415319862 (cased) |
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0415319870 (paperback) |
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